The world of the Internet can be very hostile, including online gambling. While there are some players who know how to respond to or ignore harassment, unfortunately, there are others who don’t, and the worst thing is that it doesn’t just remain a simple nuisance online, but rather the problem becomes so big that those affected think about it. suicide.
Video games are no longer a hobby almost exclusively reserved for men, but now people of any gender should be part of it without discrimination. Unfortunately, the truth is different.
While anyone can be harassed online while gaming or streaming due to toxic communities and gamers everywhere, the truth is that women are more vulnerable because men often target them for harassment and insist on harassing them. feel bad.
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Online harassment against women is systematic and continues to affect more
Sky News carried out an investigation on this matter and 4,000 women surveyed participated in it and the results were very alarming, since almost half (49%) confessed that they have been harassed when playing online or streaming. The percentage rises scandalously to 75% when it comes to players from 18 to 24 years old.
According to the details, 80% of the comments that the affected women received were of a sexual nature, while 35% were of violence in general.
In order to avoid going through this, 31% confessed that they have lied about their gender online, which is a very common practice.
A quarter of the women affected state that they would not do anything to report the abuse, something that is not surprising if we take into account that 40% of the total have received threats personally and 27% fear that these threats will materialize in attacks in real life.
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Many women harassed online think about suicide
The worst thing is that the survey reveals that 25% of those surveyed confessed that they have felt depression as a result of online harassment and 11% of the 4,000 women who took part in the survey indicated that they have even thought about suicide.
This is extremely alarming, because today the number of female players is almost the same as the number of male players and, if the data is extrapolated, then we would be talking about thousands of women who have suicidal thoughts because of the harassment they are victims of. online.
“The way our minds work is obviously wired differently than boys,” Chloe Grace Moretz, actress who plays video games for fun. “So there’s a different type of cap that I would like to see improved and more support for.”
LEVEL UP is against these behaviors and recommends that affected people seek professional support to prevent harm and report the harassers to the appropriate authorities.
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